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1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2017 18:24:11 EST Annah
   I told everyone that Mastodon was just using this as a stepping stone and no one listens, and now there's all the talk of dropping ostatus.  Vindication is bittersweet.
   1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2017 18:28:10 EST Annah

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      Mastodon has always treated federation not as an integral part of the design but rather as a marketing pull and little more.  Its been clear for a long time they don't care about comparability with other software, they want everyone using theirs .  People going from Twitter to Mastodon are just trading one jail for another.
      1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2017 18:36:59 EST Bob Mottram

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         @maiyannah I don't think so because Mastodon couldn't go back to being a single instance fortress. They could develop their own protocol and have a mastonet, but so long as there is some sort of API then federation would still be a possibility.
         1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2017 19:06:30 EST Annah

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            @bob I mean that's true of twitter right now.   Its still a silo.
      2. Internet Turtle Ⓐ (taknamay@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2017 19:14:57 EST Internet Turtle Ⓐ

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         @maiyannah I had figured that we would all switch to ActivityPub eventually but I thought GNU social dev was active. (pump.io too)
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2017 21:28:13 EST lnxw48a1

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            @internetturtle #Pump.io's new lead dev Strugee is pretty active.